Straight Talkin Mike's Transcription of the Recap of Tonight's News (Listen to the recording for all of the detailed analysis of the articles discussed after each news article listed - the following is just Straight Talkin Mikes recap of the news discussed)

Some Comments about the articles discussed before the Recap......

Lots of positive News Out there....Chapter 7 - Positive things going on....Looks like it is close to being completed - everybody shaking hands..etc etcIt has not been completed but all indications are looking very positive - it probably in principle is all done but not released to the public yet as we have discussedThey are meeting with Kuwait and there is great positive news coming out - meeting today - announcement from those meetings sometime this evening...Remember The UN needs to release them.....all of these meetings are important and critical to UN doing that - I do not think anything will stop this from being completed - all good - Still not official to UN does what they need to do to release them with the paperwork

With all the things going on....CBI is still moving forward with the things they want to do - They've done a great job of keeping their plan together moving us forward and keeping us updated....this is an update with things going onRemember Maliki has been trying to stop from them from doing what they are doing and they have really worked against them very diligently - difficult to keep them from accomplishing this goal and you can still see they are moving forward to do what they want to do because there is alot going on

Remember be non emotional - key to success is not to be come over emotionally involved - you dont make good decisions when you are - We wait and we watch all of these things come together we see really good things happening.........Good stuff from CBI

The news is coming out fast & furious - when you are reading an article try to see which region the article is coming fromBaghdad is Maliki's mouthpiece - outside of Baghdad - Allawis - also make sure when reading CBI articles - is it coming from them directly or if it is an interview - don't get stuck on the title of the article - read the article and know who wrote itYou have to very careful - You will see articles good and bad - final stages there will be so much out there - so confusing you will wonder which way is up - you should take a very positive and non-emotional approach to all of this - Don't try to time this event - noone knows the date or the rate - you will get frustrated if you do thisTake a deep breath and say these are the things that I know..these are the things I believe -One main thing is to believe in some point in the future this will occur and I will be fine - don't pin it to a day then you can start to look at these things as positive and will not affect you day to dayWe have no control over this political process or when Shabibi is going to do this...we have no control over this - there is no other country that has control over this except Iraq - they are a sovereign nation - they will make their own decisionsWe read many articles all week and today about Large companies flocking to Iraq - Investment opportunties- People are NOT running away they are flocking to Iraq - this will happen when they are ready with No Fanfare as Shabibi said

Keys to what we are looking - What do we want to see?There is an ultimatum out there to Maliki - Is he going to start to play ball? Is he going to seat the ministers - Is he going to get his government announced?There are lots of rumours out there that say yes...but based on the articles we read its not the case ..its not done yet....He's not going to react to the pressure like everybody wants him toSo we have to wait and see - is there going to be a vote of no-confidence? Is he going to seat these ministers?Are we going to get the oil contracts...Is Erbil going to be implemented?You have 66% - almost 70% of the political parties wanting Erbil - but you have 20% which is Maliki who does not want this to come into being because he is afraid of losing power - the odds are lining up against him - we are watching to see how he will react - he is going to have to do something - we need to watch for how he is going to react - He will do something - stay there or fall by the wayside - might see a vote of no-confidence

Things are moving at a very fast pace nowOnce they start to have these meetings and they start to do things we generally see things happen...they are under a lot of political pressure from the rest of the world things we may never hear about - diplomatic pressure - phone calls in the middle of the night saying okay lets get your differences done and lets move forward....Its for the better of the country and lets move thru it

CBI is still out there fighting the constant barage from the government every day as it is trying to keep the currency stablenot only has it been fighting the govt - its almost very clear why they haven't taken the step to RV at this point in time because the government is really waiting to do that and I dont think they think they will have a successful RV and be able to hold their currency with the way the government is reacting against them - they could have alot of people working against their economy and they could lose alot of value very quickly if this is not done properly they way it needs to be done

RECAP

Really the CBI is done - they are trying to get in lock step with the Parliament because the Parliament has to approve the deleting of the zeroes - We know they are bought in and Parliament really kinda buys into the idea - Maliki has gotten in the way and tried to stop it but truly Parliament is their oversight - they need them there to help them pass all of their rules and regulations that they need as they move forward with this process

We see that the Iraqis really want to hold on to their dollars and Shabibi needs to make sure that he has enough value in the Iraqi dinar to get them to lose their dollars so whatever they can purchase with that dollar now after the fact they need to be able to at least purchase that plus much more in order to get those dollars out of the hands...so we are keeping a close eye on that as he starts to move forward - It's very good for us to see that there is a little bit of confusion in that - it leads to higher initial price for him to come out at so he needs to make sure that he at least has that much value in it

Government - we read about peaceful protests which is good - thats what we want to see - people participating - getting out there- mostly now it is religous leaders getting people riled out over their religous things - people protesting - looks bad - Maliki can see the pressure mounting there on him and out there

We are starting to see that the plan that Barzani had when he came to America and getting people together and now Sadr actually coming into be a part of this - I think that is the key to get him involved because he wields alot of power around with the smaller communites and he has some of these places - almost militias that he has control of that he needs to put under the army and thats why they wanted to have the defense minister - He would certainly be a large part of controlling that army once it is all said and doneWe see that there is an ultimatum - we are going to pobably hear alot of that - we are probably going to hear positive and negatives coming out over the next couple of days - they are all going to be fighting back..Truly they just need to implement Erbil and move forwardeverything is there - the groundwork is laidIt is just truly up to Maliki to get moving forwardHe's going to get the pressure that comes from all of that You won't see a National Meeting before the terms of Erbil are implemented or at least agreed to be implemented You are going to know that that is done because they will have seated the 2 ministers - Once that is done they will go into that National Meeting and at that particular point in timethe government looks stable enough - Shabibi's window will open very wide for him to do what he needs to do in order to get things doneRemember they are coming upon some very tough dates - they want to implement tariffs...want to get the budget done - there is going to be a need to kinda put these into place and maybe adjust their schedule a little bit once everything is said and done and then move forward - Truly we need to keep in eye on thatTake your emotion out of it...Keep your eyes on the facts and don't listen to the rumors...

We wait and we watch all of these things come together we see really good things happening The PRESSURE IS really BUILDING NOW is the theme We talked before about the pressure before...Before they were talking about it - Now we are actually seeing them meeting and watching it happenSeeing Statements by the United States...and from other countries - we are seeing lots of things getting done - there is a lot of movement - there is a fine line you have to draw Maliki is out there doing his thing with Kuwait - you want to get thru that - you don't want to have that all damagedhe's got his own internal power struggles going onhe is looking at the people trying to say he is doing a good jobbut you truly have the Kurds sitting out there saying this is it...we are done..we are over it - lets get this power sharing thing done and move it forward - it looks to me that the pressure is really mounting on Maliki - You've got Sadr who really came in and who is going to apply - not the nicest guy in the whole world and he can be ruthless but I think he sees the monetary gain that can happen if this all works out the way it is supposed to because of the amount of oil they are finding in his region - He also knows it puts alot of people to work - it keeps people going - it keeps them from being poorthis is what they need to happen over there.....PRESSURE PRESSUREMaliki is going to have to yield to this pressure soon...GET R DONE And there you have it...Straight Talkin' Mike On The Straight Talk ExpressBringing You Another Night of Positive News!

The I.Q.D. Team, Ltd.'s News Coveragefor Sunday, April 29, 2012

CBI / ECONOMY

Parliament confirms move to delete zeros

Iraqis trust the dollar and preferences on the local currency

Central Bank: the project to delete the zeros will not be implemented without the approval of the government and parliament=========================================================

Straight Talkin Mike's Transcription of the Recap of Tonight's News (Listen to the recording for all of the detailed analysis of the articles discussed after each news article listed - the following is just Straight Talkin Mikes recap of the news discussed)

Below are some of the comments made after the reading of the articles

Comments after the CBI articles:Maliki is at it again....with the 1st article we read...The 2nd article states Shabibi In a Telephone interview from Washington......denies the newsSo Shabibi Leaves the country - all of a sudden you go out of the house and somebody is selling the house out from underneath you - pretty bold statements - obviously it is very very....you can see the pressure being put on the Central Bank.....Hey..No its part of what we do - its part of the Constitution and apparently someone in the news doesn't think it is....who could that be??...part of Maliki's bunch ya think?...I think so...Trying to spread these rumors all designed to be a campaign to let the people in the public think that they are trying to mess with the currency and they are not doing their job when in essence they are doing a great job trying to maintain the currency and doing what they need to do and I still say that everything we have seen happen is done by Maliki in order to try and win favor over the peopleand I would say he is going to start losing at this game very soon We are going to start to see that there are things going on inside the govt that are starting to build up -every time he starts to get a little pressure he trys to take over the Central Bank...that seems to be the one thing he can not get.....If you read those 2 articles today you saw a feud between Maliki still trying to take over the Central Bank and the Central Bank doing what it is doing - Shabibi is definetely here in the US talking to the IMF, getting guidance making sure he does what needs to get done in order to get his currency RV'd properly and done properly...one of the things we are starting to see - changes in the banking - and will see more of is the banking diversification - he really needs to bust up the state owned banks and I think you are going to start to see that happen - try to get the govt out of the business of banking as much as they can and get these other banks in there - we started to see that last week with the Bank of QatarSo you basically have to do is outnumber the government banks and you have to be able to offer better rates - more things than the govt bank can offer so that the people start to go there and diversify...Once he gets that taken care of there will be a lot less pressure from Maliki trying to force him to do thingsWe Like it....Shabibi protecting himself and doing well with what he needs to do to move forward with the plans he has in place to take care of the currency....Always ready to go....Love how he answers to the bad press....very shrewd.....saying No No Snap Out of it!! The only thing we have to support what we've got - the bank doesnt have the reserves we do - I know they want my reserves but we are the ones that have it.....its what we do and how we do it....

Lots of articles about how we are sides getting together to see how they can get rid of Maliki - Interesting development with some of Maliki people being accused of corruption and all of a sudden leaving the country - So you can see there alot of things going on inside that we dont quite know about and the pressures are thereCorruption charges - you will start seeing charges going against the people around Maliki - picking away at all the people around him to try to get them on corrruption - - they will leave the country and try to avoid whats going on...very interesting to see with everything going on how this plays out because these people who stepping out of the way are important political postions and we are taking part in all of that - you are starting to see the people building their information on the people around him to get him out of office - and to also get rid of the people around him....all good stuff -- not so much what they are being charged with but what they need to figure out is how keep these people from fleeing - so they can take care of them legally thru the system - so they can expose the corruption going on in the Maliki govt.....its all good and things that need to happen all around with this - probably see news articles that say he didn't do anything - this is all in response to the Hashimi deal........whats good for the goose is good for the gander

Sadr has decided to inject himself into this entire process which he has really stayed out of it for a long period of time and now he is out there calling for M to be removed and he's trying to negotiate this - trying to get it moved along - the key is none of these guys are all great but Sadr controls alot of the militias - and alot of whether these people are going to uprise - He keeps everybody calm thats what we found out when we were ready to pull out - When we first took over he's the one that we either decided to keep or get rid of there was alot of debate on whether he needed to stay or go -I think he sees the bigger picture of what can be and the amount of wealth that can be in this countryHe's injecting himself for the first time in all of thisNow he's a leader and a religous leader and you are going to start to see them coming in to try to influence this and move it forwardSo everybody is taking sides now and the numbers are mounting against MalikiSome of the things we saw him do today with the CBI tell us he is a desparate man who is doing desparate things but as we start to see them pick at the people around him - people that are his people we are going to see alot of things happen

RECAP

We talked about the CBI - we saw a lot of articles about them abandoning the auctions - Fake Articles put out by Maliki - Shabibi addressed that - We are starting to see some changes in the banks - The Trade Bank doing extremely well -that they are moving forward and they are loaning and getting to be very stable - this is going to be one of the main banks in Iraq to handle alot of the dinar that comes thru on contract and do alot of the reconstruction work - its nice to see their bank doing well and what they are doing - and how they are starting to move - We have read lots of ad about banks leaning their dependency off the government - becoming more independent and becoming more like a regular banking structure - we have seen that with the announcements being made over the last couple of days that the banks are becoming very independent and we are starting to see that happen - thats what we need to see happen - nice independent banking systems free of the government will do the country well

People are still moving into Iraq at a pretty good paceYou are not seeing anybody drop contracts and again thats the key to the rebuilding process...Again when do the people who are investing in this get fed up?...Well most of these people are not in for the short termand I think most of the people in the dinar community have a short term outlook on things - the longer amount looks pretty good when you look at all the money that is flowing thru the Trade Bank and things that are going on and happening - it just takes time...its not a simple fact to RV your currency - there are alot of things that have to happenlots of things that have to be in place...when you have the government fighting you along the way every bit of the way then it just makes it doubly hard - its a process and things have to be in place and until those things are in place certain things can't move forward

Now theres been alot of talk about on the political side and we see everybody talking about the no-confidence vote and moving people down that way - think of the no-cionfdiece vote sorta of as an impeachment process to MalikiIf you think abot the process over here when you try to impeach our President Just like it is over here its a very drawn out process - a process that has to go right - Its a process you dont just come out and use unless you really need to use it -you have to have everybody lined up - we are seeing everybody talks to Talabani and everybody elseto get everybody moving and lining up the sides - putting each player on the card saying Okay Do we have your support or do we not have your support? Do we have enough to pull this off?Barzani is in Kurdistan making it sound pretty good like he can have a capital there in Erbil - which he can and that can be one of the debates to throw that in there - Look we dont have to have Baghdad as the capital - we can have alot of different things go on but we can do what we need to do - we can run the government right here form Erbil if thats what needs to be or if we need to be an autonomous region and break off from you guys we will do that - so it is certainly looking like everybody is lining up to do what they need to do

And while that is going on the Central Bank is moving along with whatever process he needs to get done - getting things in shape to move forward and what they need to do - getting the banks lined up to be functional banks -talking with the IMF getting all the advice they need to make sure that everything runs smoothly and to protect themselves from Maliki - thats part of the equation that needs to be put in there now - to make sure they don't have him come out and do something fooolish like try to arrest somebody and do that kinda of stuff - Those are all things that are in the hopper - thats the process we are going thru -we would love for it to go faster faster faster - Once Shabibi feels comfortable with the political process or the process hes got in - he's not necessarily waiting for that - he's waiting for assurances that he knows that things will work smoothly - Again he has an oil economy - he needs to make sure that economy moves and does what it needs to do because if it stops it can be very detrimental

We've had people ask us whether or not the Kurds have stopped pumping oil - Based on the articles they are still pumping oil at a very good rate -they just opened another platform to put oil out so I do not see the signs that the Kurds have shut everything downI remember they shut things down for a bit but then turned the spickets back on realizing that would cripple the economy and hurt them even more - thats not what they want to do -they dont want to make Shabibi's job even harder - they would like to work with himTo make sure Iraq comes out with a good currencyso there is only so many things they can do before they damage the country, damage the people and they are probably not willing to go there to do that.....

And there you have it...Straight Talkin' Mike On The Straight Talk ExpressBringing You Another Night of Positive News!

Deb shares an article for our Veterans & Soldiers (read the entire article under the News article link)CELL PHONES FOR SOLDIERS POISED FOR SECOND ACT IN REVERSE LEGACY

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CBI / ECONOMY

Trade Bank of Iraq announced the high percentage of appropriation and re-confirms the structure

Shabibi denies the central bank started an auction sale of hard currency for the benefit of a government bank

CBI confirms the abandonment of an auction sale of foreign currency

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GOVERNMENT

ARBIL, Iraq

Former Defense Minister leaves for Iraq to an unknown destination after being accused of corruption

Deputy for change: the Kurdish and Iraqi calls for the withdrawal of confidence from the al-Maliki will be achieved if supported by the Liberal block

Kurdish source: Barzani and Talabani in a crucial meeting today to determine the final position of Maliki?

ARTICLES OF INTEREST ~~ Cell Phones for soldiers for second act in reverse legacy Mission:Help Our Troops Call Home Cell Phones for Soldiers is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing deployed and returning troops cost-free methods to communicate with family while serving in the United States military.Helping Heroes Home,” which will connect returning soldiers—particularly those with injuries or those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder—with free phone access. NEWS ARTICLE LINKSWhat a great night of news, analysis and discussion and Q & A ...listen to the call for all the rest of the news shared and more during the Q & A......SOME GREAT Q & A TONIGHT AS ALWAYS

Straight Talkin Mike's Transcription of the Recap of Tonight's News (Listen to the recording for all of the detailed analysis of the articles discussed after each news article listed - the following is just Straight Talkin Mikes recap of the news discussed)

Central Bank came out with an interview with ShabibiIt was an overview of what he's trying to do - that its by their Constitution that the Central Bank exists - he works with the House of Representatives in order to affect monetary policy - that there is an oversight committee - they are the oversight and the executive branch does not have much control of that process which we know that they wantHe talked about his reserves and talked about him moving forward and giving value to his money and his economy and going forward with all of thatWe learned they have diversified some of their Central Bank holdings...sort of a poison pill - which is reducing some of the assets that they own on the foreign banks so if anybody tries to mess with them and take them over that they won't have control of that Banking System - that the banking system can be independent..very smart moveWe also learned the Bank of Qatar is coming in - They are hugely huge in the Banking system - have offices all over the world -and can do what they need to do on an international basisAgain we have to ask this question...Why are all of these people coming in to get ahold of some of this that is going on over there?Long term..its a Great play for all of these people and everything they need to do so they are moving forward lots of positive things going on the Central Bank side as they move forward

We talked about the anaylists meetings - the Preparatory meetings that they have - lots of meetings....you are going to hear lots of meetings - Talabani is trying to get the groups together so they can avoid a vote of no-confidence so that they can get their differences ironed out people and place - really simple from the outside looking in because we are on the outside looking in to say implement Erbil...give us the ministers -we will give you your Natl Conference - we will move along - power shared we will figure out the oil contracts and everybody can live happily ever after with whatever power they haveThey can all feel great and Maliki can try like Captain Ahab to try to get the Central Bank for the rest of his life and that will be his Moby Dickand probably will end up not working out too well for him - should go forward

YWe talked about the article that they had removed barriers in front of Allawi's house today in Baghdad and the party and that was a gesture of good will...yeah right!!! It just goes to show you when we talk about how deep the differences are seems very simple to us over here on the outside looking in there are a lot of cultural differences between us and them and it just runs deep and they are not willing to give that all up so quickly - there fears are real - what they see and their realitys are real based on where they live and whats going on

We have to be patient - not get emotionally involved think about these things as we go on - everything is moving in the positive direction - lots going on over thereYou have banks...you have oil companies..you have people moving in - you've got oil coming out - there are tons of positive things going on so try not to get emotional and dont get hepped up on these things that are the stumbling stones along the wayIt will happen- maybe not in the time we think or want it to happen inBut it is moving forward and they are doing the things they need to doShabibi coming out and really reiterating that Constitutionally he has the right to be the Central Bank is very keyit is going to be very difficult for anyone on the political scene to have any votes to get them out of the way to do anything unless they change their consitututiion and right now they do not have enough votes to change their constitution because it would take 2/3 of the House to do those things - its set up very similar to the way we are here

Really the things that are set there are very diffuclt for them to get around and if they do things according to the Constitution everything will fall into its place and they can move forward not maybe live so happily ever after ...move forward ever afterAnd there you have it...Straight Talkin' Mike On The Straight Talk ExpressBringing You Another Night of Positive News!

The I.Q.D. Team, Ltd.'s News Coveragefor Tuesday, April 24, 2012

CBI / ECONOMY

World Bank country gets approval from Iraqi central to buy more than half of the shares of the Bank Al-Mansour

Shabibi: Iraq's reserves $ 60 billion

Karbouli: four members of the Iraqi will attend the meeting of the Preparatory Committee=========================================================

GOVERNMENT

Baghdad Operations lift all the concrete barriers in front of the house of Iyad Allawi and the Accord Movement

Action Committee held a hearing to discuss the draft labor lawARTICLES OF INTEREST For our Friend Tariq in Iraq (Article written by a friend of his who again is trying to get help for Tarqi and the others left behind)

Straight Talkin Mike's Transcription of the Recap of Tonight's News (Listen to the recording for all of the detailed analysis of the articles discussed after each news article listed - the following is just Straight Talkin Mikes recap of the news discussed)

CBI Economy

We talked about tariff laws being enacted - they are pushing the tariffs to be enacted - Its almost as if the government is trying to drive up inflation so they can scare the people so when they do take over or or want to take over the Central Bank that they are convinced they are doing harm to the country...and thats going to be the reason they are going to give to the people so the tariff laws are moving....June seems to be a big date - they want to put those on

Now you have the Central Bank saying they need to raise the value of the dinar again because the pressures are onThink about what they are doing politically thats not in conjunction with everything thats going on in a coordinated effort with the Central BankIt almost seems like everything we have been reading if you look in the past you start seeing it they have a coordinated effort to work against them and one thingWe talked about basically we had an article from a blog that we discussed that was kinda cute...Dr Shabibi is in the right place at the wrong timeHe is...Shabibi is one of the most brilliant men in this whole process....He knows what he is doing...he knows exactly where he is going - he knows exactly what he wants to do but he is being stopped at each step and as the article said.. Will he retire - Will he go away? Obviously if the Central Bank were to be taken over by the government he would go to the wayside and they are kinda talking a little but about that - its going to interesting to see - As I said, my opinion is always on the central banking system they always tend to win out in these places - you want to see them move to that because they are the bankers....they control the finances....they control the economy

Moving to the government...The government moving forward getting the oil money out to the peopleand electronic transactions passed so that they can have people do these things electronicallyYou dont put the cart before the horse on these thingsYou have to have the technology and it has to meet with the technologyThe technology is there and in support of the banks - the things they need as we have discussed - Its to support the banks and some of the things they need to move forward - Some of the things that need to be passed before any type of RV can happenNow at some point in time whether the government takes over the Central Bank or the Central Bank stays in tack in order to move forward THEY HAVE TO RAISE THE PRICE OF DINAR to the dollarWhoever gains control is going to do that - they are arguing over the way they are doing it and the process right nowbut they all know it needs to happen but you have things going on

Lines are being drawn in the sandAllawi and Barzani are getting together...Talabani is out there trying to support saying lets not do anything drastic - lets get the meeting lets get it all togetherAllawi and Barzani saying why should we show up - We dont have the power your promised us and its been almost 8 yrs...and we are still waiting to get our say in whatever needs to be done or passedWe want our power...Quite honestly Barzani was around meeting with everybodyAn article today that said US going to hold back F16 to Iraq while Maliki is in power - So you have that type of pressure it is starting to bear on him - He's maybe going to Iran to drum up some support to get some other stuff - He's definitely trying to get the people who will support him with what he wants to do in line and he certainly has the support...always been somewhat friendly to Iran..Those are dangerous waters for him to walk - Lot of things that can happen...Lot of consequences for him going over there and doing what hes doinghe's just reacting - obviously he wants to be out of the country at this point in timeTheres lots going on - they can get things passed - you can rest assured over the next few days we will hear what direction that is over the next couple of days should be alot of news on whats going on

National alliance is kinda saying we would like to support what we have in place but we all need to get along - they are saying the right things...politicians are saying the right things but the leader up top is not doing those right things....give up those positions and you might get the support you need to move forward - and you might see the reaction - 0bviously there is a different plan for that person who is in chargeand moving forward - hence you see where we are atNot a stalemate....it is moving forwardThere are alot of pieces in play and until the pieces kinda get decided and where they are at we have to see what goes on - and see where they are going to be when they all fall down Who is going to go where......who is going to sign those contracts...whats the validity of this power play that is going onand obviously it has been going on for the last 2 years where Maliki has been trying to mess with the Central Bank and bring that under the Government and have control and have the ultimate powerOnce you have all that power ..you've got the money and the people you will pretty much become that dictator everybody has not wanted in place but there you have it...If you've got all of the power and all that you are moving forward

So good bad and indifferent...NO.....lots of good things going on...these are the type of days where we get lots of articles that are in between because people are drawing up their plans and not too many want to release what they are going to do

So try not to fill in the missing pieces and spots by letting your mind go down with negativity - I have people who will call me or email me that they have read a negative article or post and ask Is this really going to happen? Is this going to move forward?At some point in time they have to add value to this currencyThats the bottom line.....how they do it ..how the sausage is being made is tough - anytime you have the average public involved with something that has to do with speculation everybody freaks and panics - when truly you look at it the panic and freaking makes people get out of the way - Lot of people won't go thru with it because they get too excited or can't handle the pressure and they get out...and then 6 months from now...2 months from now.....2 days from now...when everybody starts jumping thats when it will go - its the same mentality that keeps us right where we are each and everyday in our financial situations - it keeps us from letting go - natrually there is a risk with anything - you can read one or two bad articles and 1 or 2 good articles and you can surmise either way - and you can listen to alot of people who have no idea how this process works try to explain to you how it doesn't work or people who say they have gotten out of the business - saying they are done and thru and they want to save everybody from this - thats great I guess but I just dont think people are all altruistic and have everybodys best interest based on what I see happening in the community - the patterns do not hold up - if you check the patterns there are alot of patterns that are out there designed to make you go up and down on the roller coaster.......Read the news...become unemotional about itunderstand whats going on over there is a normal political process and it will take its toll and go thru and do what it needs to do and eventually it will come out on the other end of that process and things will move as they are moving - there are lots of factors we don't know about that happen in the background - pressures that come in and things we will never read about but we get to see the end product because it is never going to show up in the news - thats exactly how it all happens in the political scene - you will see articles with a stern warning - calls get made - people answer those calls in the middle of the night and there are consequences for things that they doand it looks like until we see the way the lines are drawn in where we are at - We are either going to see a Vote of No confidence or Maliki's going to get on board and going to move forward with whatever form of government he hasEITHER WAY THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME SORT OF INCREASING OF THE VALUE OF THE DINAR NO MATTER WHO IS IN CHARGE OR WHO IS IN POWER...SO KEEP THAT IN MIND

What would help all of our listeners who doubt their investment is to read the Future of Iraq Project - its on our web site - it helped all of us - and to follow the news

You have to give everything the sniff test...it is doesn't make sense to you when you are reading it.....We receive so many emails asking us our opinions and saying can you read this article or blog post and saying it just doesn't make sense - Well you have basically already told us it doesn't make sense to you why go any further than that?The economy and economics work a certain way - banks work in a certain way - Things happen very much below the seams Every one of these things like to play on your natural insecurity - natural doubt you have about banks...natural doubt about government - natural fear you have that everybody is out to get me and this is not going to happen...well when you do a currency transaction when you get into a speculative investment there are certain things that are going to be the risk and the reward - the higher the risk..the larger the reward - there is a high reward at the end of this....there is alot of risk and the risk is what we are seeing..the government - the things that are going on - its normal in this situationSo you need to take break and sometimes you need to get away from it - Put it down- walk away from the computers Dont fill yourself with all this negative thats going on out thereThe more you do this the worse it gets spend some time - read the bible or something - do something productive that will help settle your mind instead of listening to the craziness that goes on out there and find peace - find peace and however you find that peace is good...Go for it - don't get on that roller coaster...stay off that roller coaster - and understand its not the end of the world if things don't come out at the rate you have been told....its a tremendous value no matter what price this comes out at - so stop listening to these people who are saying every day it is going to happen at 14.00...12.00... it plays on your natural fears and the more you can stay grounded the more you can stay away from that - there is a process this has to got thru...not one of us on this call or any call can change that process - its going to happen the way it is giong to happen regardless of what any guru saysWatch the patterns..Monday into Tues....Tues into Wed etc etc and it is just nonsenseIf you know anything about the banking system and the way it is - it just does NOT happen his way..and these people will be the last to know.....If you go looking for trouble and you go looking for negativity you will find it....Theres alot out there....They are going to sound great but they might not have your best interest at heartThe best con man in the world always sound the best to you - They play on what you want to hear - they will be there to help you and give you all these things and they know secret info, etc etc you've heard it all - theres always the sniff test - use it and your common sense and stay grounded

Meetings coming up and lots going on...World Bank...IMF....Kuwait.....So many meetings happening the the next couple of days....Lots to look forward to...Stay grounded

Myanmar - We talked about this about 3 weeks ago....Christine Lagarde IMF talked about it in her speech the other day...it was great to seeVery good thing and they were supporting it - moving forward with it and basically she should say great things about itThats what she wants to have happen to these smaller countries -to move their currencies into the intl realm and and start adding more money and resources to the pot - Thats how they determine they are going to try to fix the economic situation it to make the pot bigger and bring more people in that pot and thats one way to do it

Article received during the Recap...Breaking News and National Meeting send in by 3 of our listeners...Meeting 5Pm TuesdayUnderstand that Malike wants the National Meeting now because he sees it as a means to an end - understand that the Kurds do not want to show up until they have certain assurances that they will get their power because their powerless at the Natl meeting because they get out voted - so you can go to that meeting and come out of that meeting with nothing and you can end up with the government moving forward the way Maliki wants it to go forward and they have nothing to show for it and thats what they are afraid of - quite honestly thats whats going to happen if this meeting moves forward without certain assurances that they are going to have that - One of those assurances for them to move forward would be to have them seat both of those ministers before that meeting - I dont think that thats going to happen...so we will have to see what kind of pressure they are going to put on...Keep that in mind

And there you have it...Straight Talkin' Mike On The Straight Talk ExpressBringing You Another Night of Positive News!

The I.Q.D. Team, Ltd.'s News Coveragefor Sunday, April 22, 2012

CBI / ECONOMY

Finance Committee: customs tariff law will contribute to the reduction of the dollar

Central Bank pledges to raise the value of the dinar again

Shabibi! Greetings! You are in time and the wrong place!=========================================================GOVERNMENT

Finance Committee: Parliament addressed the Ministries of Finance and Planning to determine how to distribute 25% of the surplus oil imports to the people

Parliamentary services: the need to speed up the enactment of the electronic signature and electronic transactions

IS source: Allawi holds "important" meeting with Barzani today

Talabani plans to extend invitations to attend the national meeting

The National Alliance and reaffirms its support for the Maliki Government attributed

Conference Call Replay - April 19, 2012Download/Playbackor760-569-7699 Pin 769478#Straight Talkin Mike's Recap of Tonight's News (Listen to the recording for all of the detailed analysis of the articles discussed after each news article listed - the following is just Straight Talkin Mikes recap of the news discussed) CBI Economy

We discussed the article about lifting of the 3 zeroes because thats what they called it - only one sentence said delete - they talked about how the Central Bank should be independent of the government and they should go ahead and do what they need to do - In tandem work together to benefit the people of Iraq and its something that needs to be doneIt doesn't talk about the particulars - it really talks about the process overall and how they are just afraid that people won't have the confidence in the dinar and thats what they are afraid of when this happens and alot of fear on the part of the government because they don't know how the people are going to reactWhen you have an artificial situation that was created in Bagdhad where there currencies fluctuated so badly and people were losing that - they dont quite understand -they dont want to lose purchasing power and they think to some degree that anytime they do anything with the currency it is going to lose purchasing power which brings us to the next articles

We talked about one of articles there is a big symposium going on in Washington DC - The Treasury & the IMF is thereThey are talking about revaluation and they are talking about exchange rates and all the stuff thats going on and Shabibi is there

We talked about how China has done some work on their currency and the moves that they made and how it valuated - what they did was not truly revaluation but trying to coax them into revaluaing their currency because it will help alot of things that are going on out there - one with China doing it at the same time or sorta similar to where Iraq does it ...The affect on the economy that these two currencies could have would be hidden and that it would be a good thing so they could provide coverBut also would help the European situation so well because China owns alot of debt - It would decrease that debt and make it a little bit better for all the countries who owe China to make them have a stronger currrency because they are going to become a consuming nation very soon there exporting alot and they are going to start to consume

We talked about Saudi Arabia & Qatar coming up with a scheme to support the Syrian pound - kinda issue new currency and back it and we talked about Why would they do something like this now?Is it just really to spit in the face of the Americans or us over hereand the sanctions - No they are preparing because there is going to be a change economically in the middle East - they want to make sure that they can support that currency as well as support whats going on in EuropeThese two things were done specifically to help Europe get stronger and settle things down

Why NOW? Whats going to happen - Why do they want to stabilize these currencies? we are seeing people moving to managed floatswe are seeing all these countries around them do this...Why? Syria had a very good currency - wasn't a fake currency like Sadams currency was - it actually support it - it was traded and has done very well - the artifical weakening of their currency is killing alot of the markets and the Middle East especially Saudi Arabia and Qatar who traded with them and did some things with them oil wise and this is meant to prop them up Why Syria - Why not Iraq?START PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER THAT SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THE CURRENCY IN IRAQ....and they are comfortable with whatever that is going to beSo they are over here supporting Syria trying to balance that on the other endVery Interesting..For those people that say these things don't happenHere are a couple of articles that you can show people that say yes it does happen....happens on a pretty regular basis - sometimes we never hear about itWe didn't hear about what Saudi was doing - it was very quiet - it was not on the internet - there was not a lot of intel people telling what was going on but it was definitely something that happened and it is happening now and its done -,they are out there supporting that currency - issuing a new currency for the backing of that Syrian pound and they are having Syrian people exchange it - doing it very quickly and very quietly in a manner where they don't have people who are terrrorists exchanging money so any large amounts being exchanged they are being very careful with thatTHINK ABOUT THAT

We also talked about the date being moved up for the Kuwait meeting to the 23rd (Monday) instead of the 29th!!!! Not postponed but moved up one week.....

Kuwait shaking hands with Iraq sending a letter to Iraq saying how happy they were with the Summit & Baghdadand everything is going good....they are trying to stay above the fray - kinda give themself a positive outlook - that look we are not standing in the way of anything to do with Chapter 7 - we are helping - we are moving forward

Government

We discussed the government - The first big article that came out and we discussed Clears up the controvery of what the role of the Central Bank is - read this article if you want to knowIts in their constitution - it states it - it is a separate entityoversight comes from the government & The Council of Ministers - they work together in tandem - one controls the monetary policy - the other one supports the monetary policy - they are not working that way now and he warns to keep your hands offHe talked about how situations are being artifically created to make the Central Bank look bad - that points back to Maliki and him being in charge because he would like to take over the Central Bank and this is NOT going to happen - Its not in their constitution

We talked about the Vote of No Confidence - the Iraqiya people have someone to nominate to bring up whose not a major political player whose been in the news which is kinda neat and cool

We talked about Maliki party saying no we can't do thisWe had a 3rd article that discussed about the conditions if possible needed to happen and maybe Maliki's party should just take care of him now so they don't have to push the country to doing thisWe learned they only need 50% House of Rep to vote for No-ConfidenceThey would have to go ahead and step down and do what he needs to doI think they have what they need - Its just a matter of time that this all movesIf he does not play ball his days are limited in my opinionWe talked about his party asking for new candidates for the Defense portfolioEverybody is trying to give him a way out in his own party and to kinda make due and play ball - I think what is going to happen he is probably going to have a couple more days of people trying to offer him solutions and when he starts turning these solutions down he is going to start to lose confidence in his own party and thats what we want to look for - once they lose confidence in his own party - which he is starting to lose confidence of the smaller players - but it is the larger players politically - I can't point those all outYou will know when he starts to panic and freak out from running to really do things or gets wild and trys to do something that he is not going to

Barzani is out traveling - news he was in Turkey - think he is gathering up his allies - He's telling people what is going on and guaranteeing if there is some kind of power struggle there will no NO civil warHe will do his part and keep his people under controlI think we have everybody kinda on that same page that they want this to be very peaceful and they want it to go thru

And on sad note today - It was one of the worst days in Iraq in awhile with violence and bombing - It is a constant reminder of what the people of Iraq go thru on a regular basisBombs going off - there are lot of people that support what Maliki wants to do - People that support the chaos that goes on in the country and would like to see it go on -Whether they are inside or outside the political realm - chaos is always something people want to create in politics because it is easy to take advantage of people when you have chaos going on - You can demand power - you can take a lot of power away - you can do alot of things when people are influx

Keep that in mind as you read the news and we start to go thru

Where are we?We are still where we were the last few daysWe are still looking for some resolution on how the oil and gas deals are going to go downYou have Maliki kicking out Exxon probably in retaliation for them sitting with Barzani which eventually won't happen - Exxon will be there - they are one of the largest companies - these are the things that need to happen - when you see this start to happen - kicking & pushing the oil companies around because they don't want the American oil companies in there - It shows the abuse of power and if we look at it from Shabibis standpoint and oursThey really need to have the oil and gas law in place so they know who is signing these contracts and who has the ultimate authorityIf you have one person who doesn't have full authority kicking these around and you have the Kurds saying screw you - we want Exxon here - they have the technology and the ability to pull this out -and the Kurds would really like the Americans to be involved in some way over there because they really are alot more comfortable having us around in case anything starts to fire up - our interests are there - they want us to have some interest there in order to protect that interest in the event that something went awry - that article kinda sums up what we are waiting onBecause if you are Shabibi and you've got all this oiland you have these two people fighting on how the are going to be paid - who they are going to bring in - you can see the damage it can do to your economy -they've pretty much stabilized this rate alot going on out there in the markets - they are trying really hard to get the confidence back in the people

There has been no RV....NO In Country RV that we could verifyThis is not how the process worksYou are NOT going to be told by someone sitting in their home office on the internet - waiting on the internet on their computers broadcasting it - Its not the way it happens - the CBI is the place we will see it - once it happens, we will see a brief little article or announcement that tells us what is going on - Until you see it there on the CBI its NOT happening - Its one of those things that is driving people to be taken - if you are not careful....Stay grounded - things are going on - if you hear reports that they are trying to get the dollars off the streets or they are trying to put more dinar on the street thats the process that Shabibi uses to stabilize his economy - He puts more money into the balloon - take more money out of the balloon and those things stabilizeSupply and demand that helps stabilize the economy over there and his dollar and exchange rate- they know what they are doingTelltale signs - there will be no telltale signs - we talked about what happened in Saudi Arabi & China - there were NO major signs all over the internet when it happened - it just happened - you have to be ready for it at any point in time- any time in this process he can do this We feel the Central Bank is ready - the political situation is not quite so readyBut if there was a vote of No-confidence and things started to move - I would think that Shabibi would want to move pretty quickyto get his reevaluation done - because it means more people coming into the country investing and so much more Keep yourself grounded - we will know when it happens - not going to be some guru telling us that its tonight...tomorrow...It will just happen.....ITS ALL GOOD.......And there you have it...Straight Talkin' Mike On The Straight Talk ExpressBringing You Another Night of Positive News!

IMPORTANT.....WARNING TO OUR LISTENERSTake the time to listen to the Mailbag Portion of the Call - after the second group of Q & A Mike & Debbie share some scary and sad stories about things they learned today from our listeners and people they know that have been takenby so called Bankers who are promising better rates NOW if you give them your dinars and they will hold them for you, etcDo not hand your dinar over to anyone!!!! There are people out there that are trying to take dinar from others by promising all kinds of thingsThere are NO bank deals now....You can NOT cash in Now for any special rate - you can NOT cash in until there is a live rate on CBI....If there was a Live rate you would be able to walk into your local bank and cash in. Don't fall victim to these predators....Crash - Formerly with one of the major banks also joins us on the call and gives GREAT advice to our listeners - There is no bank out there that is going to make any kind of deal with anyone until the rate is LIVE Many listeners shared stories as well and GREAT advice to us all......

The I.Q.D. Team, Ltd.'s News Coveragefor Thursday April 19, 2012

ECONOMY

Bafaiha special - Three zeros

Revaluation of the yuan exchange rate take effect "very promising"

A painful blow to the Saudi-Qatari scheme .. Issue a new currency for the protection of the Syrian pound=========================================================GOVERNMENT

Conference Call Replay - April 17, 2012Download/Playbackor760-569-7699 Pin 769478#Straight Talkin Mike's Recap of Tonight's News(Listen to the recording for all of the detailed analysis of the articles discussed after each news article listed - the following is just Straight Talkin Mikes recap of the news discussed)

We discussed several great articles on the CBI They talked about wanting to work hand in hand with the governmentgetting them to do the things they need to do in order to raise the zeroes...NOT delete the zeroes....raise the zeroes....we know that those mean two different things -we have discussed this many times - and when the CBI talks abut this happening they talk alot differently than when the government talks about itThey always talk about deleting those zeroesObviously the CBI understands what they want to do and the government doesn't have any idea what they are really trying to do based on what they are trying to do but it was a nice puff article out there Saleh coming out there and saying Look we are not at war with the government - the government needs to understand that we control the monetary policy and that they need to enact these things to keep the monetary policy going - not to use them as stoppers or to use them as things to inhibit monetary policy but its the way it isObviously they don't like it - would rather have our reserves - but that doesn't do anything for you - you're not tied to the world systemyou're kinda out there on your own island and eventually it all comes crumbling down - thats what Sadam did - that didn't work the first time...lets go ahead and see whats going on

Well in the meantime, the CBI has been trying to stabilize the currency rate in the streets - They put some dollars out to kinda quail that - they've kinda put the kabash on people coming in and taking this currency and running out to use it for different reasons - they are getting rid of the "ghost buyers" and they've got more buyers using the currency inside the country than there are outside the country nowand hopefully they can keep some of it in the country to stablize those rates and then they can move forwardThey've certainly done it over the last couple of days and they are still working pretty hard to keep this situation stable...keep an eye on the CBI to see what they are doing......

Moving into the political news we discussed...We discussed an article about the government talking about cutting the salariesThere was some "helter skelter" and "awakening" going on as the article statedWhat we found was very odd I guess that they are trying to cut these salaries at this point in timeAGAIN a currency that is not worth very much and they are going to cut these salariesPeople are looking at them like they have a third eyeThe article said we will see why we are going to do this in the coming days - we dont know what that means - we assume they are trying to work with getting more value added to the currency because that is the only thing that kinda makes sense

We discussed how many articles are coming out about the necessity to get these three presidencies together to have them meet and get them going - we know that the key regardless of whatever else you read is whose signing oil contracts - how's the money being divied up -that is the most important piece to this as we go forward as we have said many times because Erbil is a key piece of that - the power sharing agreement - its getting people movingUntil we start to see some very positive things moving in that direction - thats what you want to keep your eye on moving forwardThese guys can talk all they want but quite honestly you can go in and sit down and talk and if Allawi doesn't get his minister and Barzani doesnt get what he needs eventually they are going to have to move to a Vote of No-ConfidenceLooks like they have what they need to do thatWe discussed an article that the groundwork has been laid - that they are ready to go - they have all the approvals they need from the clerics, etc - they are not going to tell us when they are going to do that but they are going to go there - my guess is that there will be some kind of meeting between all 3 now that Barzani is backIt will be laid out very clearly what the deal is - who the allies are and the lines will be drawn in the sand and they will either come out of there with a positive yeah we are moving in one direction - heres the ministers and go and we will see what happens

We discussed the pressure and publicity in the American papersCan US help Iraq return to a democratic process and the answer is Yes - politically we can do alot of things - that does not mean that there are all kinds of conspiracies about this RV - It just means that politically we need to move the political process forward - the same thing we do with other countries - political meetings happen - doesn't mean people are in control or out of control - Its the nature of how we deal with countries - Its a political process and a diplomatic processThey are told certain things and you go and have meetings - this is whats going to happen - this is what you can count on and what you can't count on - all of this is done in secret and thats how things get moved....settled - who knows what will come out of those type of things but eventually the pressure is going to be hard enough that they are going to have to move forward one plan or the other

One article I read today talked about Look we are coming into an election year you dont want to have Iraq explode coming into an eelction - my guess is there is a ton of political pressure from us right now to really resolve this and move it forwardWe will have to see how all of that plays outIts not going to be something we are going to read in the paperits something we are going to see the effects of as they go thru this and we want to keep our eye out there for that

Last but not least we talked about the Oil Exports Record exports for April - Great article - they opened up this new platform and they are just pumping oil onto tankers and they are filling up and leaving as quick as they can....There were so many great articles about oil and business in Iraq latelyPeople ask us all the time where we are at and where are we going?The amount of oil and the amount of things that they have - something has got to happen with this - there's alot of wealth there - This was kinda a keep the faith article to let you know whats going on and ITS ALL GOOD..........

And there you have it...Straight Talkin' Mike On The Straight Talk ExpressBringing You Another Night of Positive News!

The I.Q.D. Team, Ltd.'s News Coveragefor Tuesday, April 17, 2012

JD reveals new procedures for the central bank currency rates on the rise

Central Bank Official: raise zeroes from the currency requires the cooperation of the government

Chairman of the Reconciliation Committee: Committee to continue with the Council of Ministers to know the truth about reducing the salaries of Awakening

Kurdistan Alliance: Barzani invited to a meeting of leaders of blocs of support for the National Conference

Straight Talkin Mike Recaps and summarizes tonights news(Listen to the recording for all of the detailed analysis of the articles discussed after each news article listed - the following is just the recap of the articles discussed on the call)

All of the articles we discussed tonight seem to say "Maliki's Plan" - That's the theme for tonights callMaliki wants to have early elections - he is trying to give himself many outs because if he gets the people poplar coming out - saying he will change all of these things if you just give me one more term - give me more things that I can do - I can make sure this country is great - I can fix it - I can do it all of this for you - I think this is the ploy he is tryingIf he knows there is going to be a vote of No-confidence he will call for early elections and then they will got thru that process of re-electing everybody and hopefully he will get rid of those in oppostiion - hopefully he can win the election and then he looks like the good guy - he's calling for the National conference - Kurds look like they are the backing out - they are getting all of the bad publicitySurely you could see after we read and discussed all of the articles earlier what the shape of the coverage of news thisweekend was and it was "Malikis plan - and what he is trying to doHe is a desperate man trying to do desperate things and he is going to have to be dealt with

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Very evident tonight after reading tonights news that We see Maliki trying to take over the Central BankWe see those efforts kinda failing...We read about one resignation possibly at the Central Bank due to health reasons and Shabibi is on his way out of the country a little bit early to a Spring Meeting with the IMF -he did not flee the country - This is great for us - we want Shabibi out of the country while alot of this is going onbecause you can see Maliki is not pulling out any stops to try to solidify is powerWe discussed articles about the Sinking dollar and how it is affecting the people Remember Maliki shut down his country for almost 6 dayswith no work...no production...no anything and now they are complaining that their dollar after this happened is highWell if we did this over here our dollar would lose a lot of value too - tremendous amount of value because there would be no production - no banking system would be open...no transactions going on here - there would have been nothing happeningSo you can see that this was a surprise - most of the people thought it was - you can see that he is trying to shape public opinion so that when he trys to do what he needs to do he's got public opinion behind himIt was very evident in the news articles we were reading tonight and all weekendAnd that his biggest concern is he wants the 62 billion in reserves -he things that it is his money...or the peoples money - or the governments money - or whatever he thinksBut the way the system is set up is they are independent and he always has a problem - he's lost in the courts - he's taking it to the public opinion - when you lose in the courts thats generally what happensthat you take it to the public and say heres what I want - lets get a ground flow going and hopefully we can move these things along that we want from our partyNow he's looking at after arresting the Chief of Elections and all of sudden he's calling for early elections because the people might want it - He's talking about how the Kurds look - they are the ones that stopped pumping the oil - lets get a National Conference togetherlets make sure that we can get this done...there they ones that are hurting you the peopleso the theme tonight was Maliki's Plan -Saturday & Sunday are big news day - you can see he is trying very hard to pump the public opininionAs we get into the week, more news will come out and we will start to see what the reaction to all of this and whats happening to him and people will come out strong and that will get in the newspaper - But you can certainly see he is trying very very hard to move this process along to do all of that Where does that leave us? Certainly it is a wait and see type of attitude right nowYou've got Shabibi who has an economic situation and if you purely play this on economics THEN HE NEEDS TO DO HIS RV and let the political side get out of the wayhe needs to give the purchasing power to the people and go forwardCertainly he is not willing to do that just yet because he has things going on - but in the coming days they need to do something to start to stablize this because as this sits there at the 1270 or whateveryou still have the public opinion against you so you have got to do somethingSo we are going to be keeping an eye on the CBI and the news to see if they announce something that they are going to doI would assume we would hear that Monday or Tuesday as we get into the week to see what they are going to try to do to do this - They might do something with the auctions - they may do some other thingsIt's certainly interesting whats going on over therewe will have to wait and see - We are in that holding pattern to see where we are at - Nothing has moved backwards - we are still in the same position we were - its just that when he is deciding to pull that- They still have the same dates that loom ahead of them that are out there that he needs to get this done but he also has the added pressure of the political situation and the political situation that wants to affect him and take away these reserves - he needs these reserves to do his RV and keep stability with his currencyWhat a day - Its craziness when you look at it but if you take a deep breath and you say this is one day - this is one piece out of that day and tomorrow we will get more information and piece it all together... so it is what it is....

And there you have it...Straight Talkin' Mike On The Straight Talk ExpressBringing You Another Night of Iraq Dinar & RV News!The I.Q.D. Team, Ltd.'s News Coveragefor Sunday April 15, 2012

SHANNAN'S COVERAGE

Central Bank governor left for Monetary Fund Meeting, not fleeing

Deputy Governor of the Central Bank to leave Iraq after his resignation

Central Bank asserts that the increase of the dollar against the dinar controlled and reduced in the coming days

Source: Central Bank Governor did not escape

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STRAIGHT TALKIN' MIKE'S COVERAGE

Iraqi dinar sinking in front of U.S. Dollars

Sadr al-Maliki accused of being behind the assassination of Chief Election Commissioner

State law: the Kurdistan Alliance demands for oil and gas law in violation of the Constitution

Maliki warns of playing on the Constitution and possible early elections in the event of Iraqis demanded that

Conference Call Replay - April 12, 2012Download/Playbackor760-569-7699 Pin 769478#Straight Talkin Mike Recaps and summarizes tonights news(Listen to the recording for all of the detailed analysis of the articles discussed - so much great information shared-the following is just the recap of the articles discussed on the call)

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Articles we read this evening about the Central Bank is about the attack from Maliki on the Central BankWhy is that important? Because Maliki wants to take over the Central Bank - he wants to take it over for his own purposes and yes he probably wants to RV and give value to the dinar - but he's more interested not in the money because thats what we are interested in but there not...he interested in the safety - he can keep the people safe but he is more interested in the money for his budget because he doesn't really like the whole Central Banking System - He wants the government to be in control over this and the banking - he doesn't want that separated - he wants it like it was in the old days with Sadam - That doesn't work in your country so that you can't go down to the store and pull out these things and the money you need and not do it - supports your currency - thats what Sadam did - you can't do that - he's under the impression all of his oil he is going to pump out of the ground is going to support his currency but he doesnt realize how the rest of the world operates with that so they are little closed eye to all of that - So the 2 things we talked about is the CBI is being attacked - these are attack articles from Maliki's sideyou are going to see alot more of these from Malikis side - trying to point at this high exchange rate - Who knows why this high exchange rate came out Maliki could be behind the high exchange rate out therethey could be working against the CBI out there on the streetalthough the CBI has come out and said we are doing what we need to do - we are fineWhat happens is when they come out and attack and everybody they decide to release this article - and get everybody upsetMalikis council comes out and says no we are not going to do this delete the zeroes...well you are an idiot if you don't understand what they are trying to do is stablize their currencypart of this whole Exchange - RV - everything that is going on out there is going to better your currency in the world and in the countryso obviously if you look at it from that standpoint you will see that there is a ton of attacks coming from him and he is just firing at every level - it got to the point where he got spanked pretty hard and then the Cabinet comes out and says you know we are not trying to link the government to the Central Bank - its not what our intention is here - we are going to yell at you but we just want the 62 billion in reserves so that we don't have to have a budget we can go spend it - we are politicians and thats what they do - we will make more of it when we do oil - well they need to understand the Central Bank is in control of all of that and needs that money for specific purposes and they dont get itSo they had to kinda come out and say it publicily and say they were not doing what they were actually trying to do and thats tickin people off

We read about coalitions building against Maliki at this point in time we've talked about how there are new alliances between the Shites & Sunnis - talking about how Maliki's touched the third rail and decided he wants to go cuddle with Iran because thats where he runs when he is in trouble try to get their help and see what they can do - they are under sanctions - really not a whole lot he can do but go over there and try to plot or do something ...I think you are going to see an uproar - I think he is losing his popular support and I think he is starting to lose the support of his partiesWe are seeing this in articles that come out - I think these are honest articles that are coming out we are starting to seeMakes sense that there is not going to be 100% support for him

When Barzani gets back into this country I would assume that this this meeting they are going to have with the Kurdish region is going to be very important and we may see a couple of bones that will get thrown out there - whether those bones are enough to make the currency RV I don't know - He may have to do it - he might not wait- he may be forced to do it - his economic situation is getting pretty grave and pretty tough...he's got enough money to stablize any situation he's got thereBut if you understand the economics of it its very difficult for him to flood the market with dollars - he would rather continue with the plan he's got going on ...Remember he was ready to do this a year agoHe was ready to go and only in conjunction when he and the IMF have decided that everything is right -everything is okay that they can go ahead and move forward and do this - he's in control - he is just waiting to see what the situation is going to be and getting advice as to whats happening if I do it now...what happens if I do it nowWhat he gets now could be wiped out if the political situation is not correctedSo you have to get the leaders to understand what they are doing and he's got to figure out where he is at...so he's dancing aroundDo not be surpised if you see the rate drop a little more - it went from 1170 to 1166 so do not be suprised if it drops 20-30 points -its not an RV but dont be surpised by that -something he has up his sleeve that he can do to help stop that currency from devaluing too much out in the market

We talked about starting to see some loosening with the oil and gas law -We've talked about how he was going to use that as a bargaining chip -in a good political standpoint you start throwing little bones out there to the people - well I'm not going to give up the ministers but we can start to figure out these oil contracts and you are starting to see that - we don't want Exxon to get really get po'd and leave but we would really like to have a piece of that pie because they sign these deals and we didn't really to get approve the contracts - thats covert for we didn't really get to put our little 1-2% in the contract that comes back to us and thats what they are fighting about when we talk about these articles - they dont trust each other because they are negotiations - they all think they are trying to screw each other - Well two rights do not make a wrong - if you sit there and you hold your hand with your partner and you hold it up and you start forcing your partners hand to the left and your partner trys forcing your hand to the right and you both start screaming I'm right - you sit in the middle all caught up in the middle and nothing happens - thats kinda what we are seeing - its the fight - Kurds are right because they have been hurt thru all of thisand he hasn't been up front and and he seems to be very power hungry - power hungry enough to say you guys have set me off in this direction - we dont want another Sadam - just remember people this is what it was but you can start to see signs of Maliki starting to weaken because is trying to run for help - -trying to look for allies and that is just a precursor of signs to come

So take a deep breath - things are still moving forward - the polticial situation is in a little bit of turmoil - there are people working to fix that situation - we also have an ambassador there working behind the scenes and if this becomes a vote of no-confidence there will be direction and they will go thru what they need to do and then we will have to see - because once he is gone and out of the way everything is in place...IT IS ALL READY TO GOthe votes are all there - they've got everything they need to do - they need to implement it which means they need to have the programs in place to go forward and move into the next phase for them But nobody said this was going to be easy - you've got alot of different political partiesIt's moving at a pretty good pace all things considered when you think about what the mess was -this was the biggest problem years back - in the 1st Gulf war when we stopped short of taking Sadam out - this was the point - how do you get these regions to live together because they were so diverse...Sadam did it by killing people and keeping them under rule and keeping them poor..keeping them uneducated and not letting them have anythingWell we are starting to see things being built - malls, all these things getting built - this not going to go to waste - there are people who are working for Iraq to get that doneWe are not there everyday - if we were we would be alot clearer if we were- we would be able to see the direction that it is goingBut from the outside looking in its going to look like eggs being scrambled but once thats done we are going to have an omelet that comes out the other side that you can eat It will all get fixed and palatable when it comes out on the other side

What are the things we are looking for...HCL to be done...anything to do with oil to come out of this would be a positive step if he throws that out Looking for maybe that no-confidence vote on Maliki or him to say okay this is it..I will give you the ministers, etc - I will sit backIt's like a game a chicken - he can go up to the last point until he knows they have all of the votes they need and then he can say okay I will give you what you want and then go back into it and hold on to his leadership role but it would not be for much longer after that - if he were to do that they would RV and things would start to change around very quickly -he would be lost in the mess

CHICKEN SOUL FOR IRAQAnd there you have it...Straight Talkin' Mike On The Straight Talk ExpressBringing You Another Night of Great Positive News!

The I.Q.D. Team, Ltd.'s News Coveragefor Thursday April 12, 2012

SHANNAN'S COVERAGE

Deputy central bank governor denies the government's accusations that the auction and the reasons behind the low exchange rate of the dinar

Urgent meetings to curb the deterioration of the value of Iraqi dinar==============================================================================

STRAIGHT TALKIN' MIKE'S COVERAGE

Iraq suggests Exxon deals with Kurds could stand

Maliki will seek to emphasize Iranian support for the office

Maliki will travel to Iran later this month to get rid of the pressure and the Iraqi Kurdistan

Straight Talkin Mike Recaps and summarizes tonights news(Listen to the recording for all of the detailed analysis of the articles discussed - so much great information shared-the following is just the recap of the articles discussed on the call)

Mike explains at length about the CBI and what is going on with the many articles about the take over of the CBI and Maliki...how the Central Bank works.....how Maliki is trying to take over the CBI, the vote of No - confidence and how it works, Shabibi and fighting with the wrong people and how you don't want to go up against the Central Banks (at the beginning of the news -listen to recording)

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The Central Bank under attackMailiki is trying to take over the Central BankBasically he doesn't understand why the Central Bank has 60 billion in reserves and they are running a deficit -he thinks they are trying to rip him off because they can pay for his deficit - he doesn't have to run a deficit...little does he know that in the rest of the world the Central Banks rule the world because of deficits - they like it - because its what do they do - they loan money to the government at a small percentage rate to cover those deficits and they sell things like treasury bonds and all that kind of stuff and they make money on it - thats their job....thats what they do - its part of how they work - love it..like it..whatever you think about it - its the system we are in...thats the system they need to followHe doesn't understand that - that would also give him complete control of the country - SHABIBI IS NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN - NAJAFI IS NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPENand they have had some pressure on the value of the Iraqi dinar and they are going to make some moves and go ahead and make that adjustmentso we are seeing some funky things going on at the CBIjust remember when you see things go on like this take a deep breathits not always all about the RV ..its about intervening to get the currency stable before they RV - can't RV with the fluctuations in the currency - you need to have some sort of stability in that currency - so now he has to go out and do that - should take hime only a couple of days to do what he needs to do..week at the longest to do what he needs to dohe's got the reserves to do whatever he needs to do whether he needs to sell more currency....take in less currency - whatever he decides or deems what those things that are necessary to doby not putting out rates or not taking in selling currencies of other countries for dinar he can do lots of things like we have seenAdded a couple more countries this morning...you are going to see some funky things you have probably never seen before on the CBI...take a deep breath...we will know when this happens as we go forward

We are waiting for Barzani to come back from America on the political side - They just need to figure out where they are at Are they going to have a Vote of No-Confidence or aren't they - they are gathering the votes right now - they should have enough votes to handle their no confidence if they need to do that - once they have that in their hands the negotations will startMaliki is either going to play games or he is not going to play games...so you've got that going on

We read about the tariffs again - moving foward The UN moving forwardLots of things that are going forward that are big dates for them to do the things they need to doWe are going to keep an eye on things as we move down this pathWe are going to do it calmly as we start to see these articles and things that tell us what is taking placeand we will see exactly where we are at when this is all said and doneAre we panicing - NOAre there things going on - YESAre there things that need to be decided before this RV's - YES absolutely - lots of things that need to be decidedWe are going to keep our eyes on things and we are going to do what we need to do thru a calm process - we are not going to worry about any of the other things that are out there that we need to worry too much about

Iraq Parliament approved Rights Commission - this is the first time in the Countrys History to protect the rights of the Iraqi peopleKobler stated this is a Landmark Achievement & Historic Decision - AWESOME This is a really big piece for the UN really to come in & is part of Chapter 7 and what the UN wants to see done in IraqThis is huge....its a big deal - we talked about the tariffs again today, the WTO and this - these are things that need to happen that makes them part of the world organizations...that they can be trusted that they don't have to have sanctions on them - these are all good things that do them very wellNow if they could just start acting like adults and get this political situation resolved we will be in better shapeCan't we all just get along?You've got a lot of people who are entering the situationas desperate as it all seems sometimesYou've got Najifi who is out there...you've got Talabani whose working out there- You've got Barzani working his sideYou've got Maliki who is giving a little..not as much as needs to You've got people involved in the political process that want this to go forwardNajifi is probably going to be the key to everything - hes out there protecting everything that is going on in this situationkinda the guy that is going okay everybody lets talk - everybody take a deep breath

But the key is when Barzani returnsHe is the Key to this situation being resolved in whatever matter they canKurds have the oil - they need the contracts - they need to make sure this gets done and I am sure he was told in no uncertain terms what kind of backing he will have or what kind of backing he won't have - whatever that is to come and do whatever he needs to do

And there you have it...Straight Talkin' Mike On The Straight Talk ExpressBringing You Another Night of Positive News!

The IQD Team Mailbag:The Team was flooded with many emails from listeners about Bank Packages, Trusts, LLC's, and whether the rumors were true they heard on another conference call -AGAIN announcing that an In-Country RV that supposedly took place and how to check if these rumors are true. (listen to the recording)

Conference Call Replay - April 5, 2012Download/Playbackor760-569-7699 Pin 769478#There will be no Call On Sunday due to the Passover and Easter Holiday...Enjoy the time off with your family and friends...We will return on Tuesday

Tariq from Iraq joined us during the Q & A Straight Talking Mike Recaps and summarizes tonights news(Listen to the recording for all of the detailed analysis of the articles discussed - so much great information shared-the following is just the recap of the articles discussed on the call)

The CBI has done a great job keeping themselves out of the fray Maliki has been throwing bombs at them trying to tell them they need more laws passedCBI has always done well when they go up against the political endThey have all of their ducks in a row - they have passed all of the laws they need - These just need regulations - Regulations are the key - you don't need major laws and you need to know the difference between laws and regulations - laws are the things that are major that you need constitutional things forRegulations are the sign posts along the way that point people how to do things so the reguatlions can be regulations of what happens to the contracts when all of this goes down - It doesn't necessarily have to be a law - they can do it with regulationsSO THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH WHATEVER THEY HAVE FROM PARLIAMENT TO MOVE FORWARDAND THEY ARE MOVING FORWARD...AS WE HAVE SAID...CBI IS READY

The boys have not been playing nicely at all in the governmentMaliki has been the big brother who is beating up on everybodyBarzani has been over in the United States, through Turkey and on his tourHe didn't just pick up and leave - this has been planned and he is using this opportunity to go out and gain support for what they want to doOur feeling is based on the articles - political source - they are looking for Maliki to get in line give up the power and/or get a vote of no confidence or get someo/ne in there that is going to look out for the rights of the people

We discussed an article that talked about Barzani and the struggles he has gone thru and what his worries are - War in Syria, spillover, you've got refugees coming in - You want to be able to have the powerYou want to be able to get your economy up and running and able to handle these situations but you dont want to have unrest where people are getting upset because the political process is not going and then it spills over into where you are atBarzani is at a bigger risk for all of this because he is closer to all of the things going on -If you read that article it will give you a good idea where their thought process is -they are squeezed and fighting back now - they have been backed into a corner and it is time for them to move forward -you've got all of the policital parties trying to make everybody play nice because Dad is going to come home and you know what happens when he comes home.....people are going get in trouble.I am sure the political pressure you are going to see over the next few days its going to be pretty heavy and hard - We have a holiday coming up over here so it will be kinda quiet in the states but diplomatically they will all be working and moving towards pushing peopleforwardLook forward to lots of articles coming out...with more fighting...more tactical playing -But when Barzani gets back my guess is you are going to see some pretty heavy handed politics that is going to move this situation forward

What does all that mean to us...Its good if this political situation can get moved out of the way - Again it is dysfunctional ..we don't want to get to the point where it is NOT dysfunctional - we want to get to the point where they are fighting and they are still moving forward but they are not fighting about whose signing contracts and all of that...REMEMBER FOLLOW THE MONEY.....FOLLOW THE OILTHATS THE KEY HERE because thats the KEY TO THE ECONOMYWe saw it a couple of articles we read tonightThat is the LIFEBLOOD OF THE ECONOMY ....thats what we are keeping our eyes on - thats where the next major move is going to be

Keep your bullcrap meter on..stay focused....stay grounded...listen to whats going on....it will give you some kind of ideaof how they are handling the situationYou will start to see it get better..you will start to see the articles back off...start to hear things getting passed and moving forwardWe are seeing little bits and pieces Parliament was in session today - doing well - trying to move some small things ahead - things they can do -Again they are still having a tough time getting people involved with the political processOnly 200 - 230 in the House showing up out of 320- you have people disconnecting from the process - you have people resigning from Malikis party because they are tired of the BS - they don't want to serve anymore because it is just too hard to go in and do all of this and fight everyday and watch people doing what they are doing..they don't see the progress - its alot of hours to them but they are not seeing the results they need to have -Once that siuation gets mended you will start to see the country move forwardThey have everything in place they need to be really be successful they just need to get the political siuation sorted out

And there you have it...Straight Talkin' Mike On The Straight Talk ExpressBringing You Another Night of Great Positive News!

Tariq from Iraq joined us during the Q & A - he shares and answers questions.....We were sorry to hear that his work Visa was denied

How has it been in Iraq since the Arab Summit when we last talked to you?

Tariq shares information on the Budget, the RV, how Maliki got more popular after the Summit...

Tariq shares about the progress being made in Iraq - construction, new shops, etc

Tariq shares his insight into the political situation and the No confidence possibility, Hashemi, Allawi, etc

Tariq shares Why the Holiday was cancelled on April 9th

Tariq shares an update on the daily security checks, cars, motorcycles, what they search for, and what the status of the security is since the Arab Summit, etc

He shared with us the price increases which they endured doing the Summit has stopped

It is 5:00 AM in the morning so Tariq has to sleep now because the electricity will go off - he has no other choice....

Thanks Tariq for sharing again with us.....

The IQD Team Mailbag:The Team was flooded with many emails about checking the authenticity of the dinars & how to be safe where you are purchasing your dinars especially thru E-BayThe team shares how to check your dinars (including the sizes of each dinar)You can also go to our site and go to Checking the Authenticity of the Dinar under PRE & POST RV TAB - many videos and instructionsMike shares on how to be safe buying dinars especially purchasing thru E-BayThe I.Q.D. Team, Ltd.'s News Coveragefor Thursday, April 5, 2012

SHANNAN'S COVERAGEExpert: deterioration of the currencies of neighboring countries would harm the national currency

Central Bank: the deletion of zeros reform project needs to issue a regulation

Financial: "Iraq is creating the conditions for even the Iraqi dinar against the U.S. dollar "=========================================================

STRAIGHT TALKIN' MIKE'S COVERAGE

Political source revealed: a large political movement with the support of the Turkish Gulf withdraw confidence from the Maliki

TALABANI SPEAKS: Statement by His Excellency the President on the national meeting